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Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

Gender Based Violence Coordinator (M/F)

Locations: Maiduguri
Status: Employee Contract : Fixed-term contract
Duration: 9 months
Starting Date: 1st of December 2018

Background
Violence in the northeast of the country has caused massive displacement and at the same time restricted movement. It has disrupted food supplies, seriously hindered access to basic services, and limited agricultural activities. Since February 2016, as humanitarian access is increasing, extreme food insecurity and malnutrition conditions have been revealed in Borno state.

As of 3rd August, 1.82 million people are estimated to be displaced within/from of Borno state, from which 1.63 million actually stayed within the state. Most of them (more than 1.2m) are living in Maiduguri with the host community and others in formal and informal camps.

MdM has started since October 2016 an emergency response to this crisis, in the Borno state. In 2018, MdM strategy in Borno state will focus on improving access to:

  • Free comprehensive PHC services;
  • Quality nutrition treatment for malnourished children;
  • Mental health and psychosocial support;
  • Lifesaving medical care, holistic referral services for survivors of gender based violence.
  • MdM is currently implementing an emergency response program in Borno state. The program is implemented around the main components: improving access to primary health care, nutrition treatment (severe acute malnutrition), gender based violence survivors’ treatment, mental health and psychological support.
  • In 2018, MdM runs directly 4 clinics (3 in Maiduguri, 1 in Damboa) and support 3 health facilities (1 in Mainok and 2 in Damboa).

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Under the responsibility of the Medical Coordinator, you make sure that GBV activities are integrated within the medical services package delivered to IDPs and host population in MdM’s clinics
  • You have functional links with the health program coordinator and mental health and psychosocial services coordinator.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:

Organization, Coordination And Supervision of GBV Activities:

  • Follow-up the smooth implementation of GBV activities and suggest adjustments of the strategy if needed
  • Ensure the quality of activities through regular monitoring and technical support, data collection and management, and provide guidance in case of difficulties
  • Carry out and update a mapping of all actors responding to GBV and develop a strong network
  • Lead on coordination with other actors to ensure safe referral for GBV Survivors and make sure MdM internal referral pathway respect the guiding principles of the response to GBV
  • Coordinate with MdM’s national partner the implementation of the sensitization and awareness raising component
  • Coordinate the community mobilization activities in close collaboration with our partner, GBV actors as well as other stakeholders (ex: community leaders …)
  • Coordinate the definition of the communication strategy and communication mediums
  • Ensure the capitalization of MdM GBV component implementation.

Human Resources, Capacity Building / Training:

  • Supervise the GBV supervisor
  • Identify the capacity building needs of MdM and partner’s team and provide trainings
  • Organize and/or facilitate trainings on the response to GBV
  • Provide technical support to MdM partner for the smooth implementation of sensitization and awareness raising activities and the definition of key messages
  • Collaborate with the medical team and particularly the sexual and reproductive health department to set up trainings and follow-up of the activities
  • Collaborate with the mental health and psychosocial coordinator in order to define and implement psychosocial care to GBV survivors.

Communication & Advocacy:

  • Participate in the development of external and internal communication tools in order to promote MdM operational model
  • Take part, if necessary, with the MdM team, partners or other actors to advocacy activities

Reporting, Information Management, Coordination / Representation:

  • Make sure the GBV data collection system is in place, respect confidentiality and safety and that GBV data collection tools are properly used and indicators monitored by the medical and MHPSS teams
  • Participate to the GBV sub sectors meetings and actively contribute to coordination efforts
  • Contribute to MdM monthly report and bimonthly sitrep
  • Contribute to the preparation of new proposals or reports to donors

Skills and Experience Needed

  • Master’s Degree in relevant field (Public Health, Social Work, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs)
  • Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings
  • At least 1 year of direct management of GBV programs in the field
  • Excellent knowledge of international standards and guidelines on GBV in humanitarian settings
  • Good knowledge of WHO ethical data sharing guidelines
  • Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment
  • Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues
  • You are committed to MdM’s values as an organization and motivated by its non-statutory, NFP model.

Languages:

  • English fluent
  • French is an added value.

Conditions of Employment

  • Salary: to be defined
  • Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
  • Transportation cost (home-work), vaccines and visas covered
  • 22.5 RTT per year
  • 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
  • Health insurance (60% covered by MdM)
  • Insurance (repatriation…)
  • Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
  • Single posting.

Method of Application

Note

  • Telephone applications will not be accepted
  • Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
  • MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.

More Information

  • Job City Borno
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Médecins du Monde (MdM; French pronunciation: [medsɛ̃ dy mɔ̃d]) or Doctors of the World, provides emergency and long-term medical care to the world's most vulnerable people. It also advocates to end health inequities.

It was founded in 1980 by a group of 15 French physicians, including Bernard Kouchner. It works in both the developed and developing world.

MdM was formed with a mission to provide timely emergency medical care, free of legal and administrative restrictions; to work with local populations to ensure long-term sustainability of healthcare systems; and to advocate on behalf of client populations.

After more than 35 years of work, MdM is a famously active advocate for its beneficiaries, and works to change the underlying inequalities that affect people's ability to access medical care.

MdM was formally established on 1 February 1980. Its goals were "to go where others will not, to testify to the intolerable, and to volunteer".

Its origins lay in a 1979 intervention to assist a drifting boat of Vietnamese refugees in the South China Sea. Kouchner, with volunteer doctors, journalists, and others organized a hospital boat, L'Île de lumière, to provide medical care and to report the refugees' suffering.

MdM was founded as Bernard Kouchner and 14 others doctors split from the group he previously founded, Medecins Sans Frontiers (MSF, or Doctors WIthout Borders). It has been reported Kouchner felt that MSF was giving up its founding principle of témoignage ("witnessing"), which refers to aid workers making the atrocities they observe known to the public.

Kouchner was president of MdM from 1980 to 1982. In 1989, the foundation of MdM Spain paved the way for the creation of the MdM international network. In 2015, the MdM global network consisted of fifteen associations; France (founded 1980), Spain (founded 1989), Greece (founded 1990), Italy and Switzerland (both founded 1993), Sweden (founded 1994), Cyprus (founded 1995 by Elena Theoharous[1]), Argentina (founded 1998), Belgium, Canada and Portugal (all founded 1999), as well as in Germany, the United Kingdom, Japan, the Netherlands, and the USA.

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0 USD Borno CF 3201 Abc road Full Time , 40 hours per week Médecins du Monde

Médecins du Monde (MdM) is an international humanitarian organization whose mission is to provide medical care for the most vulnerable populations, the world over, including France. It seeks to stimulate voluntary commitment from doctors, other health care providers, and from those whose expertise in other fields is needed for its activities, to enlist all competent support required for the achievement of its projects, and to seek at all times to encourage close working relationships with populations in its care.

Gender Based Violence Coordinator (M/F)

Locations: Maiduguri Status: Employee Contract : Fixed-term contract Duration: 9 months Starting Date: 1st of December 2018Background Violence in the northeast of the country has caused massive displacement and at the same time restricted movement. It has disrupted food supplies, seriously hindered access to basic services, and limited agricultural activities. Since February 2016, as humanitarian access is increasing, extreme food insecurity and malnutrition conditions have been revealed in Borno state.As of 3rd August, 1.82 million people are estimated to be displaced within/from of Borno state, from which 1.63 million actually stayed within the state. Most of them (more than 1.2m) are living in Maiduguri with the host community and others in formal and informal camps.MdM has started since October 2016 an emergency response to this crisis, in the Borno state. In 2018, MdM strategy in Borno state will focus on improving access to:

  • Free comprehensive PHC services;
  • Quality nutrition treatment for malnourished children;
  • Mental health and psychosocial support;
  • Lifesaving medical care, holistic referral services for survivors of gender based violence.
  • MdM is currently implementing an emergency response program in Borno state. The program is implemented around the main components: improving access to primary health care, nutrition treatment (severe acute malnutrition), gender based violence survivors’ treatment, mental health and psychological support.
  • In 2018, MdM runs directly 4 clinics (3 in Maiduguri, 1 in Damboa) and support 3 health facilities (1 in Mainok and 2 in Damboa).

Tasks and Responsibilities

  • Under the responsibility of the Medical Coordinator, you make sure that GBV activities are integrated within the medical services package delivered to IDPs and host population in MdM’s clinics
  • You have functional links with the health program coordinator and mental health and psychosocial services coordinator.

More specifically, your responsibilities are to:Organization, Coordination And Supervision of GBV Activities:

  • Follow-up the smooth implementation of GBV activities and suggest adjustments of the strategy if needed
  • Ensure the quality of activities through regular monitoring and technical support, data collection and management, and provide guidance in case of difficulties
  • Carry out and update a mapping of all actors responding to GBV and develop a strong network
  • Lead on coordination with other actors to ensure safe referral for GBV Survivors and make sure MdM internal referral pathway respect the guiding principles of the response to GBV
  • Coordinate with MdM’s national partner the implementation of the sensitization and awareness raising component
  • Coordinate the community mobilization activities in close collaboration with our partner, GBV actors as well as other stakeholders (ex: community leaders …)
  • Coordinate the definition of the communication strategy and communication mediums
  • Ensure the capitalization of MdM GBV component implementation.

Human Resources, Capacity Building / Training:

  • Supervise the GBV supervisor
  • Identify the capacity building needs of MdM and partner’s team and provide trainings
  • Organize and/or facilitate trainings on the response to GBV
  • Provide technical support to MdM partner for the smooth implementation of sensitization and awareness raising activities and the definition of key messages
  • Collaborate with the medical team and particularly the sexual and reproductive health department to set up trainings and follow-up of the activities
  • Collaborate with the mental health and psychosocial coordinator in order to define and implement psychosocial care to GBV survivors.

Communication & Advocacy:

  • Participate in the development of external and internal communication tools in order to promote MdM operational model
  • Take part, if necessary, with the MdM team, partners or other actors to advocacy activities

Reporting, Information Management, Coordination / Representation:

  • Make sure the GBV data collection system is in place, respect confidentiality and safety and that GBV data collection tools are properly used and indicators monitored by the medical and MHPSS teams
  • Participate to the GBV sub sectors meetings and actively contribute to coordination efforts
  • Contribute to MdM monthly report and bimonthly sitrep
  • Contribute to the preparation of new proposals or reports to donors

Skills and Experience Needed

  • Master's Degree in relevant field (Public Health, Social Work, Development Studies, Humanitarian Affairs)
  • Demonstrated 2-3 years professional experience in humanitarian settings
  • At least 1 year of direct management of GBV programs in the field
  • Excellent knowledge of international standards and guidelines on GBV in humanitarian settings
  • Good knowledge of WHO ethical data sharing guidelines
  • Ability to take initiative, work independently and foster a team environment
  • Strong organizational, oral and written communication and coordination skills
  • Excellent analytical and problem solving skills
  • Good sense of diplomacy and understanding of international global political issues
  • You are committed to MdM’s values as an organization and motivated by its non-statutory, NFP model.

Languages:

  • English fluent
  • French is an added value.

Conditions of Employment

  • Salary: to be defined
  • Expatriation bonus (10% gross salary per month)
  • Transportation cost (home-work), vaccines and visas covered
  • 22.5 RTT per year
  • 5 weeks of paid leaves per year
  • Health insurance (60% covered by MdM)
  • Insurance (repatriation…)
  • Médecins du Monde promotes trainings and internal mobility
  • Single posting.

Method of Application

Note

  • Telephone applications will not be accepted
  • Médecins du Monde reserves the right to fill the vacancy before the closing date for applications.
  • MdM stands up for the integration of people living with disabilities and fights against discrimination.
2018-12-16

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